The Miami Dolphins and the Meaning of 'Football Tough'

Football Should Strive to Be Better Than This

The Miami Dolphins are scheduled to play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Monday Night Football, in what may be the most desolate game of the NFL season. The Buccaneers are 0-8, rudderless, circling the drain. The Dolphins are 4-4, still playoff capable, and yet they're considered more of a civic embarrassment, for reasons you now surely know. For more than a week, reports have circulated about the alleged harassment of Dolphins' offensive tackle Jonathan Martin by his teammate, Richie Incognito, the alleged details of which have been disturbing. Martin left the team of his own volition; Incognito was suspended by the...